To ensure the second round of glyphosate (PMIDA) environmental protection scrutiny going well, CCPIA published the Notice of Investigation of Environmental Protection Compliance on Glyphosate (PMIDA) Manufacturers (CCPIA Notice No. 15 of 2014) in this April, which is mainly aimed at those who are operating or intend to operate glyphosate (PMIDA). On Jun 25, CCPIA held a symposium on environmental protection scrutiny in Beijing, organizing glyphosate (PMIDA) manufacturers to attend. Afterwards, CCPIA received over 20 manufacturers’ positive feedback, and the expert group carried out field investigation for the said manufacturers. They brought up their suggestions to the manufacturers on the problems that found in the investigation.

Right after the symposium, there were 18 glyphosate (PMIDA) manufacturers claimed that they would join in the second round of scrutiny. However according to the field investigation and current progress of application, some of them may withdraw their application.

According to the schedule, to the end of September, the candidates’ application materials should have been submitted by provincial environmental protection departments to the MEP (Ministry of Environmental Protection). The MEP will review and supervise and to the end of December the qualified list of the second round of scrutiny will be announced.

“Since there were some problems and barriers that had not been foreseen during the first round of scrutiny, the qualified list was postponed half year. While with the accumulated theory and practice experience, the schedule of the second scrutiny will be guaranteed”, said Zeng Tu, the director of Membership Dept. of CCPIA, “most important of all, the restrictions of the second scrutiny won’t be reduced, high level of environmental protection requirements will be ensured so as to promote the scrutiny’s effectively implementation.”